Elbert Hubbard Quotes
Elbert Green Hubbard was born on the 19th of June, 1856 in Bloomington, Illinois, United States. He was an American editor, publisher and philosopher. Hubbard made several publications, which includes the fourteen-volume work “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great” and the short moralistic essay “A Message to Garcia.”
Hubbard is best known as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Elbert Hubbard and his second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, died aboard the RMS Lusitania when it was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915.
In this article, we have compiled an array of popular Elbert Hubbard quotes and sayings.
60 Elbert Hubbard Quotes About Life, Friendship & Work
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and do not waste a minute thinking about your enemies. Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal. Keep your mind on the great and splendid things you would like to do, and then, as the days go gliding away, you will find yourself unconsciously seizing upon the opportunities that are required for the fulfillment of your desire, just as the coral insect takes from the running tide the element it needs. Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual… Thought is supreme. Preserve a right mental attitude – the attitude of courage, frankness, and good cheer. To think rightly is to create. All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed. Carry your chin in and the crown of your head high. We are good in the chrysalis.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“It’s a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Life is unrest, and its passage at best a zigzag course, that only straightens to a direct line when viewed across the years.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“A man who marries a woman to educate her falls into the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“The hands that help are far better than the lips that pray.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“No one gets very far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess. ” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love…I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“If you can not answer a man’s argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success? ” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Live truth instead of professing it.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Character is the result of two things, mental attitude, and the way we spend our time. It is what we think and what we do that make us what we are.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.”― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
20 Short Elbert Hubbard Quotes
“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“The love we give away is the only love we keep.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.”― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.”― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Art is not a thing; it is a way. ” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Laughter is higher than all pain.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Nothing is permanent but change.”― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Men are only as great as they are kind.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Every saint has a bee in his halo.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Responsibility is the price of freedom.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“We work to become, not to acquire.”― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Men are punished by their sins, not for them.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.”― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“True life lies in laughter, love and work.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“There is no failure except in no longer trying.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote
“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” ― Elbert Hubbard Quote